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mitt romney will fight for every american job. >> romney: i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> bill: how about a little fact checking on that ad, judd? >> yeah. it is really, i think probably the most dishonest ad we've seen this campaign cycle. at least at the presidential level. >> bill: which is saying something, isn't it? >> it is saying something. is it it starts off right at the beginning when mitt romney says i have a plan to help the auto industry. and as it turns out he has no plan. there's nothing on his web site and actually reporters have followed up and they've said could you send us a copy of the plan. and there is no plan. no one's gotten anything. so i guess it is just the idea that -- saying you have a plan is more important than actually having a plan. >> bill: also when he says i have a plan for 12 million new jobs and we haven't seen the plan yet either. on the auto industry, it is kind of late after g.m. and chrysler are already back, right? already back on their feet making bigger profits than ever before and better cars than ever before. it is kind of
mitt romney will fight for every american job. >> romney: i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> bill: how about a little fact checking on that ad, judd? >> yeah. it is really, i think probably the most dishonest ad we've seen this campaign cycle. at least at the presidential level. >> bill: which is saying something, isn't it? >> it is saying something. is it it starts off right at the beginning when mitt romney says i have a plan to help the auto...
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mitt romney wants to cut it out? 81% of all kids between the ages of two and eight grow up with sesame street. 81%. that's enormous. there is the nobody better known than cookie monster, elmo, and big bird. ♪ do, do do elmo's song ♪ >> i still have dreams about it. >> bill: and then the amount spent on it it is .00012% of the -- of last year's federal budget. that amounts to $1.35 per american family. i'm sorry, dammit i'll pay for a thousand american families to watch it. it's ridiculous and the idea that you are going to take something that is so popular, that is so damn good that is so meaningful, and cut it out just shows a lot about -- i think how totally -- first of all how mitt romney is willing to pander any time to the right-wing in any way possible. and it shows how totally out of touch he is with the american people. the big bird himself by the way -- i would love your comments on this because i know you watch it you are grown up with it, or grown up with it with your kids 866-55-press. big bird went o
mitt romney wants to cut it out? 81% of all kids between the ages of two and eight grow up with sesame street. 81%. that's enormous. there is the nobody better known than cookie monster, elmo, and big bird. ♪ do, do do elmo's song ♪ >> i still have dreams about it. >> bill: and then the amount spent on it it is .00012% of the -- of last year's federal budget. that amounts to $1.35 per american family. i'm sorry, dammit i'll pay for a thousand american families to watch it. it's...
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mitt romney, you're wrong. we need more teachers, not fewer teachers and more cops and more firefighters that support our ñ (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. (vo) she's joy behar. >>current will let me say anything. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> bill: all right. in the next hour we'll talk to congressman joe courtney from connecticut. a lot of damage up in connecticut. find up more about it. and neil king will be here from the "wall street journal" as a friend of bill. president obama has one event on his schedule today after he gets the daily briefing he'll be heading out to the andrew air force base and a short hop over to atlantic city new jersey. where he'll be met by governor chris christie. big moment for the president, staying on top of the storm damage, and certainly a big moment for governor christie. the president will be back at the white house at 4:25 pm this afternoo
mitt romney, you're wrong. we need more teachers, not fewer teachers and more cops and more firefighters that support our ñ (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. (vo) she's joy behar. >>current will let me say anything. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> bill: all right. in the next hour we'll talk to congressman joe courtney from...
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and then romney flies back to canton ohio. ohio is seen as the most important swing state in this election. here is the president there yesterday. >> obama: if mitt romney had been president when the auto try was on the verge of collapse we might not have an american auto industry today. >> you can see that appealing to the worker-class voters. early voting could give president obama theed a advantage. ho stopped off to vote early yesterday. more bill press is coming up live after the break, and as always we are love in chat and would love to see you there. we can join us there at current.com/billpress. see you on the other side of the break. highest priority on election day. besides, you can always dvr my show. you really cant' dvr the future of the country. to help you make informed decisions, watch current tv's politically direct lineup. only on current tv. so vote and vote smart. [ male announcer ] pillsbury grands biscuits. delicious. but say i press a few out flat... add some beef sloppy joe sauce... and cheese fold it a
and then romney flies back to canton ohio. ohio is seen as the most important swing state in this election. here is the president there yesterday. >> obama: if mitt romney had been president when the auto try was on the verge of collapse we might not have an american auto industry today. >> you can see that appealing to the worker-class voters. early voting could give president obama theed a advantage. ho stopped off to vote early yesterday. more bill press is coming up live after...
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romney's challenge now is to prove that was the real mitt romney we saw at the debates. the confident asserttive romney we saw during the debate is not the romney we have grown used to over the last couple of months. romney has since stood by his 47% statement but now he is rolling it back. here is what he said yesterday. >> it's completely wrong. and i absolutely believe, however, that my life has shown they care about 100%. >> you might think that this new romney is nothing but an act. if you do, you are not alone. here is what the president had to say to a crowd of 30,000 people yesterday in madison, wisconsin. >> i met this very spirited fellow who claims to be mitt romney. but i know it couldn't have been mitt romney because the real mitt romney has been running around the country this past year promising $5 trillion tax cuts for the wealthiest americans. >> romney is rolling out new campaign ads as well as new talking points over the next few days and weeks. his goal is to convince the american public that he is ready to be president. more coming up live after the
romney's challenge now is to prove that was the real mitt romney we saw at the debates. the confident asserttive romney we saw during the debate is not the romney we have grown used to over the last couple of months. romney has since stood by his 47% statement but now he is rolling it back. here is what he said yesterday. >> it's completely wrong. and i absolutely believe, however, that my life has shown they care about 100%. >> you might think that this new romney is nothing but an...
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but mitt romney. again, he shuts down a plant because it kills and now he's out there -- it is like he banned assault weapons when he was governor of massachusetts. and then running for president he's all for them because the nra is for them. >> there are so many flip-flops, this could be a huge flip-flop. it would be a huge story but there are just so many to choose from it is like take your pick on which one you want to get the most outraged about. >> bill: he makes john kerry look solid consistent all the way. we'll have a lot of fun. victoria jones from talk radio news will be with us as a "friend of bill." brad woodhouse one of our favorites, communications director for the democratic national committee will be along as well in studio. we'll talk to susan paige, the washington bureau chief for "usa today." hey, great line-up for you. but first... >> this is the "full court press." >> some other headlines making news for you on this thursday morning. carlos beltran got injured in the cardinals/gia
but mitt romney. again, he shuts down a plant because it kills and now he's out there -- it is like he banned assault weapons when he was governor of massachusetts. and then running for president he's all for them because the nra is for them. >> there are so many flip-flops, this could be a huge flip-flop. it would be a huge story but there are just so many to choose from it is like take your pick on which one you want to get the most outraged about. >> bill: he makes john kerry...
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romney said this. wrong. romney said this. wrong. romney said this. wrong. romney said this. but the people watching last night don't necessarily know all of that and i come back to point, that was president obama's job last night to call mitt romney out on every one of those lies and for some reason unknown to man or god he didn't do it. more calls coming up. 1-866-55-press. the debate last night. and jim lehrer. >> announcer: on your radio and on current tv, this is the "bill press show." >>and now to my point. that is a whole bunch of bunk! the powerful my steal an election but they cannot steal democracy. >>i jump out of my skin at people when i'm upset. do you share the sense of outrage that they're doing this, this corruption based on corruption based on corruption. >>i think that's an understatement, eliot. u>> i'm not prone tot. understatement, so explain to me why that is. i think the mob learned from wall st., not vice versa. >> announcer: this is the "full >> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the "bill press
romney said this. wrong. romney said this. wrong. romney said this. wrong. romney said this. but the people watching last night don't necessarily know all of that and i come back to point, that was president obama's job last night to call mitt romney out on every one of those lies and for some reason unknown to man or god he didn't do it. more calls coming up. 1-866-55-press. the debate last night. and jim lehrer. >> announcer: on your radio and on current tv, this is the "bill press...
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mitt romney will fight for every american job. >> romney: i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> bill: james what is the romney campaign's response to the fact checking? >> they haven't spoken publicly about it. they have kept it very low-key, i think they hoped that no one would really notice. there is unquestionably damage done to mitt romney because of his opposition to the auto bailout. the obama campaign is aggressively running ads around romney saying let detroit go bankrupt. >> bill: uh-huh. >> and romney knows he needs to deal with it. yesterday romney had three events, spoke about 25 minutes at each of them didn't say a word about the bailout or anything like that, and at each event any obama response was the auto bailout. and chrysler denies the claim in that ad that they are going to be sending jeep jobs to china. and portman introducing romney noted that he had supported the auto bailout when it happened and then made that whole pitch which is ultimately romney is better than you than obama. i think if it wasn't for the auto bailout romney would probably be ahead i
mitt romney will fight for every american job. >> romney: i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> bill: james what is the romney campaign's response to the fact checking? >> they haven't spoken publicly about it. they have kept it very low-key, i think they hoped that no one would really notice. there is unquestionably damage done to mitt romney because of his opposition to the auto bailout. the obama campaign is aggressively running ads around romney saying let detroit...
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president romney is a good debater. >> that is in response to reports that romney is prepping and plans on taking jabs at the president. obama spokeswoman is saying don't expect the president to fire any blows and he looks forward to continuing his conversation with the american people. the president is traveling with a prep team, david axelrod anita dunn and senator john kerry. kerry is playing romney during the mock debates with the president. the team is hunkering down to get the president ready. romney is campaigning in denver today with a stop with the wings over the rockies museum. paul ryan is at a rally in iowa. early voting in iowa is now underway. a washington post poll out this morning shows 63% of registered voters expect president obama to win reelection and a washington times zombie poll has the president with a pretty good lead. more coming up after the break. stay with us. you're about to watch an ad message created by a current tv viewer for capella university. matter. education is the key. it is the vehicle. it's the way in which we evolve. every journey is different e
president romney is a good debater. >> that is in response to reports that romney is prepping and plans on taking jabs at the president. obama spokeswoman is saying don't expect the president to fire any blows and he looks forward to continuing his conversation with the american people. the president is traveling with a prep team, david axelrod anita dunn and senator john kerry. kerry is playing romney during the mock debates with the president. the team is hunkering down to get the...
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romney. i also think that paul ryan's inability to answer the hard questions about the budget, that the tax proposals he is making speaks again to the swiss cheese nature of their appeals answers they simply don't work. mitt romney has a problem. he went hard right. he has lost the middle. paul ryan is not a friend of mitt romney long term. paul ryan is for paul ryan. he is thinking about 2016. he has not gotten what he needed. >> before we go, i have one last question. >> yes. >> what about, you talked about paul ryan, this medicare argument, you know, do you think that seniors believe that this is only going to affect people under the age of 55 or do they not trust politicians enough to think they can't keep their hands off the medicare. >> i honestly don't know how to get my arms around how the seniors react. they understand that paul ryan is up to no good when it comes to his medicare proposal. they look at him you look at the response at aarp, the way the proposal is at the end of the da
romney. i also think that paul ryan's inability to answer the hard questions about the budget, that the tax proposals he is making speaks again to the swiss cheese nature of their appeals answers they simply don't work. mitt romney has a problem. he went hard right. he has lost the middle. paul ryan is not a friend of mitt romney long term. paul ryan is for paul ryan. he is thinking about 2016. he has not gotten what he needed. >> before we go, i have one last question. >> yes....
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mitt romney did not. partly it was maybe mitt romney had a cold. but it was the issue they were talking about. obama not going into the presidency with a lot of foreign policy experience. but there's been a lot happen on his watch. he's handled it. he's grown. he's handled it very, very well, i believe. restored our reputation around the world. mitt romney knows this is not his long suit. i think he was nervous about not making a big jerry ford kind of goof. gaffe. >> his positions in this area, mitt romney's, they're all an inch deep. so i think that there was a calculation that look, we do not want to get into a back and forth. peel back the onion. so when obama would attack, romney's response, a number of times was just well, attacking me doesn't solve the problem. but of course you could say about any attack or any -- you could say that no matter what. and it kind of gets you through in a way but it also fends off any extended -- any extended back and forth because when you peel back, he hasn't articulated beyond the talk and beyond the bluster
mitt romney did not. partly it was maybe mitt romney had a cold. but it was the issue they were talking about. obama not going into the presidency with a lot of foreign policy experience. but there's been a lot happen on his watch. he's handled it. he's grown. he's handled it very, very well, i believe. restored our reputation around the world. mitt romney knows this is not his long suit. i think he was nervous about not making a big jerry ford kind of goof. gaffe. >> his positions in...
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romney. >> bill: the latest gallup poll shows romney up. don't panic. in fact, i would say don't pay any attention to it whatsoever. we've been through this before, but every time one of those polls come out people say oh, my god it's all over, it's all over. no, not at all. couple which points to remember, one, this is a national tracking poll, national tracking polls don't mean beans. we do not elect a president of the united states with a national popularity poll. we do not have a national referendum. we do it state by state. number two gallup, that particular poll, is only one of six daily national tracking polls, all of which are meaningless, but of the six gallup is the least trustworthy of all. nate silver who has the best site on "the new york times," what he calls a 538 site, analyzes and traction 136 different polls and he reports yesterday that the gallup poll is the least trustworthy of all 136. in the year 2000, in august, for example, they had george bush over al gore by 16 points. then in september, they had al gore up over g
romney. >> bill: the latest gallup poll shows romney up. don't panic. in fact, i would say don't pay any attention to it whatsoever. we've been through this before, but every time one of those polls come out people say oh, my god it's all over, it's all over. no, not at all. couple which points to remember, one, this is a national tracking poll, national tracking polls don't mean beans. we do not elect a president of the united states with a national popularity poll. we do not have a...
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romney ryan. romney ryan. romney ryan. there we go. all right. that's great. thank you. >> john: now this prompted a rather public mocking from joe scarborough. but i think it was an example of governor romney being a little stiff and trying to do some crowd work which isn't his specialty. i thought the governor took a bad rap on that one. what do you think? >> in that case, when morning joe showed the clip of it, they heard people chanting but you couldn't really quite make out what they were chanting. but morning joe added a subtitle to indicate that the crowd had been chanting ryan's name. and that -- which made it look like romney came in and said add my name, too which makes him look a little bit desperate. i was actually there at that event as were you know, 30, 40, 50 other reporters. almost all of us heard that the crowd was chanting romney. and he was -- it is still awkward. he still seems a little awkward. but it makes him seem a little less desperate. i pointed that out on "buzzfeed." wrote an item pointing that out. as did some conservative blogs a
romney ryan. romney ryan. romney ryan. there we go. all right. that's great. thank you. >> john: now this prompted a rather public mocking from joe scarborough. but i think it was an example of governor romney being a little stiff and trying to do some crowd work which isn't his specialty. i thought the governor took a bad rap on that one. what do you think? >> in that case, when morning joe showed the clip of it, they heard people chanting but you couldn't really quite make out...
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romney to me is not mr. romney. it's mr. chicken hawk. this guy can screw up -- i don't know -- >> bill: a two-car funeral as they say. >> caller: yeah there could be a major accident involved. [ laughter ] >> caller: he scares me to death. not only does he screw up with saying about russia being our national enemy -- >> bill: oh, right. >> caller: and then he can go over to britain and get people ticked to the high heaven, and that was a disaster tour from comedy central. he is going to have world war iii and he is going to have some of our best allies blow up our outhouse as we say out here. >> bill: that's right. i forgot that russia was the greatest threat facing the united states. you are going to trust this guy on foreign policy? i wouldn't trust him to run bain capital anymore. you know? the more we see of mitt romney the less there is to admire. as if there was anything to start with. all right. come back. 866-55-press. dave zirin standing by to bring us up to day on sports. >> announcer: heard around the country, and seen on curr
romney to me is not mr. romney. it's mr. chicken hawk. this guy can screw up -- i don't know -- >> bill: a two-car funeral as they say. >> caller: yeah there could be a major accident involved. [ laughter ] >> caller: he scares me to death. not only does he screw up with saying about russia being our national enemy -- >> bill: oh, right. >> caller: and then he can go over to britain and get people ticked to the high heaven, and that was a disaster tour from comedy...
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he was asked about mitt romney and whether republicans could trust somebody like mitt romney. snarlin arlen came through. >> the party has moved so far to the right you can't recognize mitt romney. what mitt romney will appear in october? bill said it exactly right. he said that mitt romney has changed positions more often than a pornographic movie queen. [ laughter ] >> that is so funny. >> bill: there's a line you could lose today or tonight. >> pornographic movie queen. that's an 82-year-old guy saying porn star. >> pornographic movie queen jenna jameson endorsed romney. we know they think alike. >> republicans are better for rich people. that's actually what she said. >> bill: now with the attempt to reinvent mitt romney or his attempt to reinvent himself you don't know where he stands on any issue. >> on gig. he is gumby. he has scaled so many fences, he could build a tree house from the splinters in his butt. he should say i'm mitt romney and i both approve and disapprove of this ad. >> bill: on abortion, he changed his position three times in two days. i'm going to over
he was asked about mitt romney and whether republicans could trust somebody like mitt romney. snarlin arlen came through. >> the party has moved so far to the right you can't recognize mitt romney. what mitt romney will appear in october? bill said it exactly right. he said that mitt romney has changed positions more often than a pornographic movie queen. [ laughter ] >> that is so funny. >> bill: there's a line you could lose today or tonight. >> pornographic movie...
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romney has five boys. romney evaded vietnam. he was pro vietnam but he didn't want to fight. he went to france. he has five boys. romney and ryan advocating war. they get in, we're going to war. >> john: well, i don't know -- i don't know if we're going to send troops to war. i know they'll be bombing iran but that could happen if barack obama is re-elected anyway. >> caller: that's true. the question needs to be asked all of these young men going to war, you have five boys, would you want to send one of your boys to war? >> john: no. they asked him that in 2008 and he said his boys were serving his country by trying to get him elected president. that was their national service. von, you're mistaken about one thing. it is a very important point. he didn't just dodge vietnam. he didn't just support vietnam and not go. lots of republicans did that. george bush supported the war and avoided going. rush limbaugh got deferments for anal cysts. pat buchanan, they all supported the war. newt gingrich avoided going but the most damming thing about mitt romney, what makes him worse th
romney has five boys. romney evaded vietnam. he was pro vietnam but he didn't want to fight. he went to france. he has five boys. romney and ryan advocating war. they get in, we're going to war. >> john: well, i don't know -- i don't know if we're going to send troops to war. i know they'll be bombing iran but that could happen if barack obama is re-elected anyway. >> caller: that's true. the question needs to be asked all of these young men going to war, you have five boys, would...